This time its with the keypad lights, I’m laid in the dark so you would think the keypad would light up with it having light sensors built in? Well this didn’t happen and after a battery pull the keypad was lit up once again. But believe me I am getting sick and tired of pulling the battery.

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After hours of searching on the internet I found out that this is normal after a few years use….apparently it’s due to the dirt that builds up in the superdrive and when it keeps ejecting the discs the drive is ready for replacement, ok not too bothered about that but where the hell can I buy one from? I wanted to avoid getting one direct from Apple but it looks like I am going to have to give in and give them a call to find out how much a replacement drive is.

So why don’t Apple have them on their store? I have no idea either, there is hardly on eBay either so not sure if they are rare to come across? I can’t imagine so especially with them coming in all Apple iMacs. I have found one on eBay but I am not going to pay £100 for it, no way, no chance, not in this world would I spend that sort of money, for that sort of money I would want a Blu Ray writer!

Rant Over

Goodnight.

Some time ago (around a year ago I think if not longer) I was playing on my Xbox 360 on Gears of War 2 when bang! I had the dreaded RROD (Red ring of death) which is basically three red lights and then you cannot use your xbox again until you get it repaired.

I didnt bother to get it fixed, well I did that is a lie, I did the towel trick which is basically wrapping the xbox up in a towel and leave it powered on for around 20 minutes to over heat. Remove the towel and try booting and it worked for me, well I say it worked, it worked for around 10 minutes before I got the three red lights again.

I just gave in and threw it under the stairs and didn’t think anything else of it.

Monday I decided I was going to fix it, so I took it to bits cleaned the thermal paste from the processor and heat sinks, applied new paste, removed the xclamps and put in screws, built back up and YES! It works, we are not back up and running. Just a shame I have been banned from xbox live.

I am getting a new xbox 360 on friday from my brother and will be playing on live with that one.

The journey took me just over 3 hours!! The weather was horrendous, continuous rain, heavy rain, slow rain, fine rain, rain that you can’t see 1 meter in front of you TERRIBLE!

The motorways were completely drenched and covered in water, cars and wagons throwing water up into the air so it hits your windscreens, water been thrown from the other side of the motorway from the oncoming traffic.

I think I got above 50MPH for around 20 miles but then soon came back down because of the weather. At one point I was actually thinking it was getting too bad maybe I should pull over wait for it to stop, but it’s a good job I didn’t I would still be sat there now waiting for it to stop. Luckily I missed the high winds that started just after I got off the M1.

You got the same old knob head that you would on a dry day whizzing past you at around 90/100 MPH and I couldn’t help myself thinking that if you were to slide and crash and lost control you would be getting exactly what you deserve, especially in that weather where you couldn’t even see the car in front, nor could you even see through your windscreen because there was that much water about.

I had one prick shooting up my chuff then started flashing me when I wouldn’t move, this is the point I was up to 70MPH and I simply refused to move as I didn’t want to be stuck behind a lorry nor did I want him to get past, I was ranting a raving and in the end I simply moved over after around 1.5 miles where he pulled behind me and got off the motorway! Success! Least I managed to slow one person down and probably fuck him off in the process!

Travelling back down tomorrow, I hope it’s much better weather tomorrow and also hope it doesn’t take me as long either.

I sent numerous requests off to Google but still didn’t get an invite, they must have had literally millions of requests so my 5 maybe didn’t stand out to them!

Got speaking to various different people on twitter and saying if we got invites we would invite each other but it just doesnt work like that as we found out, it turns out you only get invites if you are invited by Google, not quite sure how true that is but I still haven’t got any invites to send out.

I’ve been using wave throughout the day and can honestly say my first thoughts were…what the hell is the point in this?

I still thought this for the first few hours and then I saw potential, live chat, making friends, chatting, information, basically it’s kind of a even more real time version of twitter but not as simple to use!

I’ll see how I get on, but still prefer twitter

Ill carry on riding the wave for now, but if things dont improve I may stop using it.

I think it is definitely over rated!